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Montgomery County Police have identified a second woman who they say had human semen sprayed on her by Michael Wayne Edwards Jr.

After Edwards, 28, of Gaithersburg was arrested by City of Gaithersburg Police on July 29, county police noticed similarities to a November 2009 case. Edwards randomly selected the women in stores and sprayed them from behind with his semen from a small bottle, police said. Gaithersburg police says they confirmed last week the semen belonged to Edwards.

Gaithersburg police Detective Patrick Word got a written statement on July 29 from Edwards implicating himself in the July 15 and Nov. 19 incidents, county police Detective Scott Brooks of the 5th and 6th District Investigative Section said Monday.

On Tuesday, Word said he is investigating similar cases throughout the county going back some 18 months. Some of the cases he is looking at happened in Rockville and Takoma Park, he said. Edwards was arrested July 29 by Gaithersburg police and charged with second degree assault for the July 15 incident. He was released on $4,000 bond, according to court records.

"There are more victims and there will be more charges," said Word who would not say how many more victims have been identified. "It's not your everyday crime. It's going to take some time to sort through some things before the other charges come."

Edwards was arrested again Aug. 2 by county police for the Nov. 19 incident and again charged with second-degree assault, according to court records. He was released in a $25,000 bond. The maximum sentence for second-degree assault is 10 years in jail.

"We're still trying to determine if there are any more victims," Brooks said. "I don't know what his motivation was."

No one answered the door at Edwards' Gaithersburg apartment Monday and his Rockville-based private attorney, Barry Helfand, did not return phone calls.

Brooks said he never has investigated a case like this and would like to know why Edwards decided to spray semen on the women. Brooks said he encourages women to call the police if they think they may have been the victim of such an attack. He gave credit to the woman from the July incident for helping close his 2009 case.

Court documents provide the following account of the July 15 incident:

A woman walking out of the Giant Food store at 842 Muddy Branch Road felt something wet touch her back and hair. She reached up to feel what it was. She then turned and saw Edwards and asked him if something had dripped on him too; he acted like he didn't know what she was talking about. The woman asked a friend who was waiting in her car if she saw anything on her back and the friend told her it looked like semen. When the woman approached Edwards, he sped off in a car. Police took the woman's clothes on July 16 for testing. Surveillance video from the supermarket shows Edwards buy groceries, wait for the woman just outside the store and spray semen from a small bottle onto the woman's back.

Brooks said he noticed similarities in his November 2009 case. Court documents provide the following account of that incident.

A woman noticed Edwards follow her into the Michael's craft store on 821 Center Point Way in Gaithersburg. Moments later, after walking into the store, the woman felt something brush against her back and thought it was Edwards walking by her. Minutes later, she noticed semen on her sweater. She made eye contact with Edwards in the store and he ran out the front door and drove off in a car.

The semen found on the woman's shirt and skirt after the July 15 incident is being tested for HIV, Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka said last week. Sroka said Monday that the results were not in yet and could take a few weeks depending on the crime lab's other cases.

Edwards is scheduled to appear in Montgomery County District Court for the July incident on Sept. 7, according to court records. For the November incident, he scheduled to appear in District Court on Sept. 16.